Patents by Inventor J. Read

J. Read has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20080148174
    Abstract: A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: IAC Search & Media, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel J. Read
  • Publication number: 20080148178
    Abstract: A user interface is described; having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: IAC Search & Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Read, Erik T. Collier
  • Publication number: 20080147709
    Abstract: A user interface is described; having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: IAC Search & Media, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel J. Read
  • Publication number: 20080147708
    Abstract: A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: IAC Search & Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Read, William R. Massie, Raul G. Diaz
  • Publication number: 20080147670
    Abstract: A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: IAC Search & Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Read, Erik T. Collier
  • Publication number: 20080147634
    Abstract: A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: IAC Search & Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Raul G. Diaz, Andy H. Yang, Daniel J. Read
  • Patent number: 7389317
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus including a multiplier unit forming a product from L bits of each two data buses of N bits each N is greater than L. The multiplier forms a N bit output having a first portion which is the L most significant bits of the of product and a second portion which is M other bits not including the L least significant bits of the product, where N is the sum of M and L. In the preferred embodiment the M other bits are derived from other bits of the two input data busses, such as the M other bits of the first input data bus. An arithmetic logic unit performs parallel operations (addition, subtraction, Boolean functions) controlled by the same instructions. This arithmetic logic unit is divisible into a selected number of sections for performing identical operations on independent sections of its inputs. The multiplier unit may form dual products from separate parts of the input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Karl M. Guttag, Christopher J. Read, Keith Balmer
  • Publication number: 20080126162
    Abstract: A solution for improving the logging, tracking, and/or reporting of activities and incidents of a project, and more particularly, to an integrated activity logging and incident reporting system is provided. A method may include: providing an on-line electronic database, wherein the database includes a plurality of activities related to the project and at least one incident, wherein the at least one incident is related to at least one activity; providing an activity log from the database; and providing an incident report from the database, wherein the incident report is integrated to the activity log, and wherein access to at least one of the activity log and the incident report is selectable. In an embodiment, the on-line electronic database communicates with an enterprise migration manager (EMM) database for an information technology (IT) transformation project.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Keith W. Angus, Scott D. Hicks, James A. Martin, Jeffrey E. Prince, Jonathan J. Read-Bone
  • Publication number: 20080117751
    Abstract: An arrangement is provided in which the health of a storage medium such as an optical disc is monitored by analyzing the level of error correction that must be applied to correct read errors from the optical disc. A replacement of the storage medium is generated through a copying process when the error level meets or exceeds a replacement threshold. Once the replacement medium is successfully generated, the digital rights management (“DRM”) license (that may be required to render or play the content from the storage medium) and/or the content contained on the storage medium is overwritten or erased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventor: Christopher J. Read
  • Publication number: 20080109368
    Abstract: An arrangement is provided where a media server temporarily stores a DRM license that is associated with downloaded media content prior to copying the DRM license to a physical archival medium such as an optical disc. When the media server confirms that the DRM license is successfully copied to the physical archival medium, it destroys the temporarily stored DRM license.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Christopher J. Read, Robert Hardacker
  • Publication number: 20080109366
    Abstract: An arrangement for managing a media file having an associated DRM license is provided by enabling the copying of the media file stored on a source medium to a target medium only when both the source medium and the target medium are held in custody by a media server. The media server writes a copy of a media file and a copy of the associated DRM license from the source medium to the target medium. Upon confirmation that the copy of the DRM license was successfully written to the target medium, the DRM license and media file on the source medium are overwritten. The result is that the target medium contains both the media files and the DRM licenses which are locked to the target medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventor: Christopher J. Read
  • Publication number: 20080103976
    Abstract: A method of playing back content based on digital rights management (DRM) between a portable storage and a device and a portable storage for the same are provided. The method of playing back content using a portable storage includes requesting the portable storage to transmit a right to play back content protected through digital rights management (DRM), receiving the right to play back the content protected through DRM from the portable storage, and informing the portable storage of completion of the playback when a playback of the content protected through DRM using the right is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Christopher J. Read, Robert Hardacker
  • Patent number: 7275511
    Abstract: An intake assembly is provided for a sequentially fired eight cylinder V-type internal combustion engine including a cylinder block having a first band of cylinders and a second bank of cylinders. The assembly includes first, second, third, and fourth intake plenums mounted with respect to the engine. The first bank of cylinders includes a first group of two cylinders that fire ninety crank angle degrees apart from each other and the second bank of cylinders includes a second group of two cylinders that fire ninety crank angle degrees apart from each other. The first and second intake plenums are operable to communicate intake air to a respective one cylinder of the first group of two cylinders. The third and fourth intake plenums are operable to communicate intake air to a respective one cylinder of the second group of two cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher C Wright, Robert J. Moran, Iain J. Read
  • Patent number: 7242325
    Abstract: An error correction compensating ones or zeros string suppression system and method for use in a digital transmission system is herein disclosed. In digital transmission systems utilizing error control coding (ECC)/forward error correction (FEC) to reduce the number of bit errors in a bit stream, long strings of ones and zeros are easily suppressed by detecting a prohibited length of ones or zeros, and flipping a bit in the string of ones or zeros. This method and system removes the violation of the ones or zeros bit string requirement by flipping a bit in the string, while the receiving side utilizes the error correction capability of the ECC/FEC to correct the inverted bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher J Read
  • Publication number: 20060194258
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for sequencing, fingerprinting and mapping biological macromolecules, typically biological polymers. The methods make use of a plurality of sequence specific recognition reagents which can also be used for classification of biological samples, and to characterize their sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: AFFYMETRIX, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Pirrung, Lubert Stryer, Stephen Fodor, J. Read
  • Publication number: 20050214828
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for preparation of a substrate containing a plurality of sequences. Photoremovable groups are attached to a surface of a substrate. Selected regions of the substrate are exposed to light so as to activate the selected areas. A monomer, also containing a photoremovable group, is provided to the substrate to bind at the selected areas. The process is repeated using a variety of monomers such as amino acids until sequences of a desired length are obtained. Detection methods and apparatus are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Applicant: Affymetrix, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Pirrung, J. Read, Stephen Fodor, Lubert Stryer
  • Publication number: 20050208537
    Abstract: A synthetic strategy for the creation of large scale chemical diversity. Solid-phase chemistry, photolabile protecting groups, and photolithography are used to achieve light-directed spatially-addressable parallel chemical synthesis. Binary masking techniques are utilized in one embodiment. A reactor system, photoremovable protecting groups, and improved data collection and handling techniques are also disclosed. A technique for screening linker molecules is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Applicant: Affymetrix, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Fodor, Lubert Stryer, Michael Pirrung, J. Read
  • Patent number: 6934619
    Abstract: Engine speed data (N) and engine fueling data (MFDES) are processed to develop rate-of change data values for both engine fueling (FUELING_DIFFERENCE_FILTERED) and engine speed (ENGINE SPEED_DIFFERENCE_FILTERED). The latter are processed according to a look-up table (30) to select a data value for an adder (ENGINE SPEED/FUELING_ROC_ADDER). The adder data value is added to the data value of a control parameter, such as engine fueling (MFDES), to compensate for engine transients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Read, Talus Park
  • Publication number: 20050153363
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for sequencing, fingerprinting and mapping biological macromolecules, typically biological polymers. The methods make use of a plurality of sequence specific recognition reagents which can also be used for classification of biological samples, and to characterize their sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Pirrung, Lubert Stryer, Stephen Fodor, J. Read
  • Publication number: 20050153362
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for sequencing, fingerprinting and mapping biological macromolecules, typically biological polymers. The methods make use of a plurality of sequence specific recognition reagents which can also be used for classification of biological samples, and to characterize their sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Pirrung, Lubert Stryer, Stephen Fodor, J. Read